“Systemic RACIST problem” – Joe Rogan’s guest Derrick Hamilton details spending over twenty years in prison over FALSE convictions
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Podcast King Joe Rogan‘s podcast features guests from all walks of life. His guests include people who are comedians, actors, academians, political analysts to anyone who has an interesting story to tell.
In a recent instalment, one such person Derrick Hamilton was featured on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast along with the host and Josh Dubin. Hamilton was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Daniel Cash, which he insisted he did not commit. He was in prison for over two decades for the murder that he did not commit.
For more than two decades, Hamilton struggled to survive in prison, bouncing from one correctional facility to another and enduring lengthy stays in solitary confinement. During his time in prison, he taught himself enough criminal law to become one of the most qualified jailhouse lawyers in the country.
After the education, he fought for his own case and when he was released. He started working for others who he believes were wrongfully convicted and are being kept in prison. He also started a movement called the Innocence Project. The project was responsible for the removal of Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes. Ken Thompson, who replaced Hynes, exonerated ten people who had been wrongfully convicted within his first year in office
Derrick Hamilton argues that Racism is at the core of these wrongful convictions on Joe Rogan’s podcast
During his conversation with Joe Rogan on the JRE podcast, Hamilton detailed his experience of spending over two decades in prison, he also detailed his wrongful conviction and his early life before the conviction. He went on to discuss how many black men are wrongfully convicted and kept in prison.
According to him, Systemic Racism is the main cause of these wrongful convictions in Brooklyn. The self-taught lawyer stated during the conversation with the UFC commentator, “We just began blasting the prosecutors. We began protesting outside the offices and getting rid of them The first one we was able to get rid of was Charles Hynes in Brooklyn, the prosecutor that sent me to prison.”
“We was able to remove him and put up a progressive prosecutor in that agreed that he would look at these convictions if he was elected. So he got in and in two years he exonerated 22 people. And he found that it was a systemic racist problem in Brooklyn that was convicting the wrong people.” Derrick told the podcaster.
Hamilton was eventually paroled and his case has since been vacated and dismissed after the CIU concluded that he was innocent of all charges. He now works as a paralegal and continues to help out in wrongful conviction cases.
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